Review of Indie Game: The Movie (2012) by Davy — 17 Jul 2012

Yeah Yeah its about video games but don't go judging it too hastily! Its not just about video games, its about the emotional, physical, social and financial struggle that a few passionate individuals had creating something so unique and beautiful from nothing.

The film was very involving from the start and you made an emotional connection with the designers from the very start. My first impressions from this documentary were something of "yeah its going to show the progression and the story telling and the lives of these people who make the games then everybody will live happily ever after" with not TOO high hopes about it.

As I kept watching and got more and more involved you remember that this is a documentary and this is the real world, and more often than not things go wrong, and it really hits you in situations like Phil Fish was in before his show case when you start to think; "Things could actually go **** up for this guy!".

The film was quite funny and showed a good variety of the work/lifestyles of independent game developers. The film was very emotional as you are constantly hoping the best for the developers. There were weeps of sadness and tears of joy towards the end and over all it was very insightful.

Maybe I am being bias rating it a 9/10 as one day I hope to be a game developer too. But you dont have to have a love for games to agree that this film was brilliant.